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The  Brattle  Organ 

(See  page  212) 


New  England  Magazine 

An  Illustrated  Monthly  Review  of  New  England 
Life  and  Achievement 

VOL.  XXVII.     No.  2 


CONTENTS   FOR  OCTOBER,  1902 

FRONTISPIECE  — THE  BRATTLE   ORGAN..... 130 

THE   MASSACHUSETTS   INSTITUTE  OF   TECHNOLOGY James  Phinney  Munroe.  131 

GOETHE  —  A  POEM Alice  Crossette   Hall  .  1 59 

THE  PRICE  OF  AN  ANGEL  —  A  STORY ELLA  Middleton  TybOUT  1 60 

THE  COLONIAL  PARSON Homer  J.  Webster 167 

A  SONG  OF  LOVE  — A   POEM Virna  Sheard 176 

THE  PINE  TREES  OF  NEW   ENGLAND Annie  0.   Huntington..  177 

JANE  AND  MARY  FINDLATER,  SISTER  NOVELISTS Nora  Archibald  Smith.  186 

POLLY  STEVENS'  CALF'S  SKIN  —  A  STORY Mary  McHenry 192 

STORY   OF  MAZZEI Helen   Zimmern 198 

^^^HE  FIRST  ORGAN  IN   AMERICA Arthur   W.  Bra'yley...  212 

AUTUMN  — A   POEM Ellen  Frances  Baldwin.  219 

DANVERS,  MASSACHUSETTS Frank  E.  Moynahan. •  • .  220 

THE  TREASURE  OF  FAR  ISLAND  — A   STORY Willa  Sibert  Gather..  234 

SURVIVAL  —  A  POEM Charlotte  Becker 249 

THE  TOURIST  AND  THE  NATIVE Ethel    Hobart 250 


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The  First  Organ  in  America 


By  Arthur  W.  Brayley 


TN  an  unpretentious  little  chapel 
in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  stands  an 
instruniciTt  whose  voice  was  the 
first  organ  tone  to  be  heard  in 
the  New  World.  Could  it  descril^e 
the  scenes  of  which  it  has  been  a 
spectator,  often  not  a  silent  one,  how 
full  of  interest  its  narrative!  It  could 
tell  of  the  reqaiem  for  Queen  Anne 
and  of  the  important  happenings  in 
the  reign  of  five  kings  upon  the  Brit- 
ish throne  before  the  crowning  of 
Queen  Victoria.  It  could,  tell  of  the 
stirring  events  of  the  Revolution,  and 
of  how,  at  the  age  of  eighty-four,  it 
sounded  the  dirge  of  Washington. 
Sacred,  however,  to  the  holy  purpose 
for  which  it  was  erected,  it  has  been  an 
onlooker  instead  of  a  participator  in 
the  secular  events  of  its  time. 

Its  advent  was  the  cause  of  a  bitter 
controversy  that  lasted  for  years  and 
brought  upon  the  cultured  donor  the 
severest  censure.  The  prejudice 
against  organs — called  by  the  Scotch 
"a  kist  of  whistles"  and  by  the  Puri- 
tans the  "devil's  bagpipes" — was  an 
inheritance  of  the  days  of  Puritanism 
when  the  hatred  of  all  forms  of  the 
Established  Church  of  England  was 
carried  to  such  a  degree  that  the 
Government  was  petitioned  to  "put 
down  all  cathedral  churches  wherein 
the  service  to  God  was  most  griev- 
ously abused  by  the  piping  of  organs, 
ringing  of  bells,  singing  and  trowling 
of  cliants  frojn  one  side  of  the  choir 

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to  the  other,  with  the  squeaking  of 
chanting  choir  boys,  and  such  like 
abomination  which  were  an  offence  lo 
the  Lord." 

Cotton  Mather,  in  his  "Magnalia," 
has  a  question  "whether  such  music 
may  be  lawfully  introduced  in  the 
worship  of  God  in  the  churches  of  the 
New  Testament."  He  says  also,  that 
"there  is  not  one  word  of  institution 
in  the  New  Testament  for  instrumen- 
tal music  in  the  worship  of  God  and 
because  God  rejects  all  He  does  not 
command,  therefore,  says  in  effect: 
T  will  not  hear  the  melody  of  thy 
organ.'  But,  on  the  other  side,  the 
rule  doth  abundantly  intimate  that  no 
voice  is  now  to  be  heard  in  the  church 
but  what  is  significant  and  edifying 
l)y  signification,  which  the  voice  of  in- 
struments is  not."  He  asks,  "If  w^e 
admit  instrumental  music  in  the  wor- 
ship of  God  how  can  we  resist  the  im- 
position of  all  the  instruments  used 
among  the  ancient  Jews?  Yea, 
dancing  as  well  as  playing  and  sev- 
eral other  Judaic  actions." 

The  subject  was  discussed  in  va- 
rious theses  at  Harvard  College 
Commencement : 

"Do  organs  excite  a  devotional 
spirit  in  divine  worship?"  Negative, 
1730. 

"Does  music  promote  salvation?" 
Affirmative,   1762. 

"Does  the  recent  reformation  in 
vocal  music  contribute  greatly  toward 


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promoting,  the    perfection    of     divine 
worship?"    Affirmative.  1767. 

It  was  disputed  even  in  England 
whetlicr  organs  were  to  be  considered 
superstitious  and  popish.  They  had 
been  destroyed  or  silenced  in  the  time 
of  the  Commonwealth  and  it  was  not 
without  much  misgiving  on  the  part 
of  timid  Protestants  that,  after  the 
Restoration,  one  London  church  after 
another  admitted  the  suspected  in- 
strument. It  was  noted  as  one  of  the 
high  church  reactions  in  Queen 
Anne's  time  that  churches  without 
organs  had  thinner  congregations. 

This  organ  was  imported  probably 
in  1708  or  1709,  by  Hon.  Thomas 
Brattle,  a  noted  citizen  of  Boston, 
where  he  was  born  June  20,  1658,  and 
where  he  served  from  1693  to  1713, 
the  year  of  his  death,  as  treasurer  of 
Harvard  College.  He  held  a  promi- 
nent place  in  the  town's  affairs  and 
was  distinguished  for  his  activity  and 
ability  as  well  as  for  the  zeal  and 
readiness  with  which  he  devoted  his 
time,  wealth  and  intellectual  powers 
to  objects  of  private  benevolence  and 
public  usefulness.  Mr.  Brattle  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Brattle 
Street  Church,  first  known  popularly 
as  the  "Manifesto  church,"  his  name 
leading  the  list  of  communicants,  and 
he  gave  to  the  corporation  the  land  in 
Brattle  Square  on  which  the  church 
edifice  stood.  He  was  a  zealous 
friend  of  the  church,  but  the  liberality 
of  his  religious  views  and  his  opposi- 
tion to  the  popular  witchcraft  delu- 
sion brought  upon  him  great  hostility 
in  both  his  private  and  public  life. 
He  also  was  a  musician  of  no  mean 
ability,  and  having  none  of  the  preju- 
dices of  the  day  against   musical  in- 


struments and  their  use  in  public 
worship,  he  imported  from  England 
the  instrument  described  in  this  ar- 
ticle. The  first  reference  to  it  is  in 
the  Rev.  Joseph  Green's  diary:  "1711 
May  29  (Boston).  I  was  at  Mr. 
Thomas  Brattles,  heard  y"^  organs 
and  saw  strange  things  in  a  micro- 
scope." 

Mr.  Brattle  d-ied  in  1713  and  his 
will,  probated  May  23  of  that  year, 
among  other  bequests  contains  this 
item:  "I  give,  dedicate  and  devote 
my  organ  to  the  praise  and  glory  of 
God  in  the  said  Brattle  Street  church, 
if  they  shall  accept  therof,  and  within 
a  year  after  my  decease  procure  a 
sober  person  that  can  play  skilfully 
thereon  with  a  loud  noise ;  otherwise 
to  the  church  of  England  (King's 
Chapel)  in  this  town,  on  the  same 
terms  and  conditions,  and  on  their 
non-acceptance  or  discontinuance  to 
use  it  as  above, unto  the  (Harvard)  col- 
lege and  in  their  non-acceptance  to 
my  nephew,  William  Brattle." 

The  following  action  upon  the  mat- 
ter was  taken  by  the  Brattle  Street 
Church : 

"July  24,  1713,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Brattle,  pastor  of  the  church  in 
Cambridge  signified  by  a  letter  the 
legacy  of  his  brother,  Thomas  Brat- 
tle, Esq.,  late  deceased,  of  a  pair  of 
organs,  which  he  dedicated  and  de- 
voted to  the  praise  and  glory  of  God 
with  us,  if  we  should  accept  thereof, 
and  within  a  year  after  his  decease 
procure  a  sober  person  skilful  to  play 
thereon.  The  church,  with  all  pos- 
sible respect  to  the  memory  of  our 
deceased  friend  and  benefactor  voted, 
that  they  did  not  think  it  proper  to 
use  the  same  in  the  public  worship  of 
God." 


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The  matter  now  rested  with  the  of- 
ficers of  King's  Chapel,  and  they  ac- 
cepted the  gift.  The  entry  in  their 
books  recording  the  event  is  as  fol- 
lows :  "At  a  meeting  of  the  Gentlemen 
of  the  church  this  3d  day  of  August 
1 71 3,  Referring  to  the  organs  given 
by  Thomas  Brattle,  Esq.,  De'as'd, 
Voted,  that  the  organs  be  accepted 
i)y  the  church."  And  at  another 
meeting  held  February,  1714,  it  was 
voted,  "That  the  church  wardens 
write  to  Col.  Redknap  and  desire  him 
to  go  to  Mr.  Edwards  Enstone  who 
lives  next  door  to  Mr.  Masters  on 
Tower  Hill,  ar^d  discourse  him  on  his 
inclination  and  ability  to  come  over 
and  be  the  organist  here  at  30  pounds 
per  annum,  this  money,  which  with 
other  advantages  as  to  dancing,  mu- 
sic, etc.,  will,  we  doubt  not,  be  suffi- 
cient encouragement."  On  March  2 
of  the  same  year  it  was  "Voted  that 
the  organ  be  forthwith  put  up." 

We  know  that  the  organ  lay  un- 
packed in  the  tower  of  the  chapel 
from  the  time  it  was  received  until 
the  above  vote,  a  period  of  seven 
months,  and  that  between  March  and 
December,  1714,  pending  the  arrival 
of  Mr.  Enstone,  it  was  played  by  a 
Mr.  Price. 

The  following  contract  was  made 
by  Col.  Redknap  with  Mr.  Enstone  in 
London,  and  is  interesting  from  the 
fact  that  it  is  the  first  agreement  of 
the  kind  in  the  country: 

"Articles  of  agreement  made,  had,  and 
concluded  upon  the  29th  day  of  June 
Anno  Domini,  1714,  and  in  the  thirteenth 
year  of  the  Reign  of  our  Soverign  Lady 
Ann,  By  the  Grace  of  God  Ruler  of 
Great  Brittain,  France  and  Ireland, 
Queen  defender  of  the  Faith  etc, 
Between  Edward  Instone  of  the  city  of 
London,  Gent,  of  the  one  part,  and  Collo 


John     Redknap     of     Boston,     in     North 
America,  Gent,   (for  and  on  behalf  of  the 
churchwardens    and     vestrymen     now    and 
for  the  Queens  Chappel  in  Boston  afore- 
said)   of  the    other   part,    in    manner   and 
form    following,    viz;     whereas,    the     said 
Collo    John    Redknap   was    authorized   by 
the    churchwardens    and   vestrymen   of   the 
Queens    Chappel    in     Boston     aforesaid,    to 
procure,  contract  and  agree  for  them  and 
in  their  names  with  a  person   well  quali- 
fyed  and  would  undertake  to  be  organist  in 
the    said    chappel;    and    if    said    Edward 
Instone  being-  a  person  fitly  qualefied  for 
the   said   Imployment   and   willing  to   un- 
dertake  the   same.     It  is  therefore   mutt- 
ally    covenanted,    concluded    and     agreed 
upon  by  and  between  said  parties  and  the 
said    Edward    Instone    doth    agree    to    y'' 
same.    That    the    said    Edward    shall    and 
will  by  or  before'  the  25th  day  of  October 
next  issueing,   wind  and  weather  permit- 
ting,   be    in    Boston    in    North    America 
aforesaid   and   being   there   shall    and   will 
at  all   proper   and   usual   times   of  Devine 
service   officiate    as    organist    in    the    said 
chappel  for  and  during  the  space  of  three 
years   certain,    to   be   computed   from   the 
day   that    the    said    Edward   Instone    shall 
arrive    at    Boston    aforesaid,    and    after- 
wards   for    such    term    or    time'    as    the 
churchwardens   and  vestrymen  of  the   said 
chappel  now  and    for    y«   time    being   and 
the   said    Edward    Instone    shall   think    fit 
and    agree    upon.       In    consideration    of 
which  voyage  so  to  be  performed  by  the 
said  Edward  Instone,  he,    the    said    Collo 
Jno   Redknap,  hath  this  day  paid  unto  y^ 
said   Edward  Instone  the  sum  of   £10  of 
lawful     money     of     Great     Brittain,     the 
Rec't    whereof    is    hereby    acknowledged; 
and  the  said    Collo    John    Redknap    (for 
and  on  the  part  and  behalfe  of  the  church- 
wardens   and    vestrymen    of    the    Queens 
Chappel  in  Boston  aforesaid  now  and  for 
the  time    being)    Doth   covenant    promise 
and  agree  to    and    with    y^    said    Edward 
Instone,   his  exc'r's  and  adm'r's  that  the 
churchwardens  and  vestrymen  of  the  said 
chappel  now  and  for  the  time  being  shall 
and    will    from    time    to    time    and    at    all 
times  will  and  truely  pay  or  cause  to  be 
paid    unto    the    said    Edward    Instone   the 
sum  of  £7   los.  per  Quarter  immediately 


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after  each  Quarter  day,  current  money, 
of  New  England,  for  every  Quarter  of  a 
year  that  the  said  Edward  Instone  shall 
ofificiate  as  organist  in  y^  Chappel.  And 
to  ys  true  performance  and  keeping  of 
all  and  singular  covenants  and  agree- 
ments' herein  before  curtained  each  of  y^ 
said  parties  bindeth  himself,  his  exc'r's 
and  admV's  unto  the  other  of  them,  his 
exc'r's  and  adm'r's  and  assigns  in  y^ 
penal  sum  of  £20  of  lawful  money  of 
Great  Brittain  by  these  presents  to  be 
paid  recovered.  In  wittness  whereof  the 
said  partys  to  these  presents  have  inter- 
changeably set  their  hands  and  seals  the' 
day  and  year  first  above  written. 

Edward  Enstone  (l.  s.) 

Sealed  and  delivered 

in  y^  presents  of 

Jong  Gawthorne 

Stephen  Bellas. 
Gentlemen. 

The  £10  given  to  Mr.  Enstone  was 
more  than  the  church  officers  in- 
tended should  be  paid,  but  Col.  Red- 
knap  wrote  them  that  as  the  organist 
had  to  pay  his  wife's  passage  he  could 
not  start  for  a  less  sum  and  that  dur- 
ing the  time  he  was  making  prepara- 
tions for  the  trip  to  New  England  he 
would  study  the  mechanical  construc- 
tion of  the  organ  in  order  that  he 
would  be  able  to  make  any  repairs  in 
case  of  accident.  It  was  not  until 
September  7,  1714,  that  the  organist 
left  London  for  Boston,  at  least,  that 
is  the  date  of  the  following  letter  he 
brought  to  the  vestrymen  of  King's 
Chapel : 

Gentlemen: 

According  to  your  former  request  and 
Directions  I  now  send  you  over  Mr.  Ed- 
ward Enstone  an  organist  to  y^  Kings 
Chappel  in  Boston.  I  sent  you  in  July 
last  by  Capt.  Lethered  a  copy  of  article 
o£  agreement  between  him  and  myself. 
What  I  have  to  say  further  upon  that 
head  is.  That  he  is  said  to  be  a  person 
of  sober   life   and   conversation   and   well 


qualified  for  what  he  has  undertaken,  and 
I  doubt  not  but  he  will  approve  himself 
as  such  which  will  merit  your  assistance 
in  other  matters  relating  to  his  profes- 
sion. 

I  am   Gentlemen  with  all  respects 
Your  very  humble  servant 

J.   Redknap. 

The  organist  brought  with  him  not 
only  sacred  music  to  these  music- 
silent  shores,  but  also  secular  notes. 
Judge  Sewall  records  in  his  diary  the 
following  significent  entry : 

"1716  (Nov)  29-s.  After  lecture  Mr. 
Welsteed  and  Capt.  Wadsworth  ac- 
quainted Mr.  Bromfield  and  me  that  a 
Ball  was  designed  at  Enstone's  in  the 
evening ;  pray'd  us  to  prevent  the  Gov'r 
being  there.  ...  At  last  his  Excel'y 
promised  us  not  to  be  there." 

That  Mr.  Enstone's  playing  was 
satisfactory  to  the  congregation  of 
the  stone  chapel  is  attested  by  the  fact 
that  on  January  17,  171 7,  at  the  ex- 
piration of  the  three  years'  contract 
he  was  re-engaged  at  the  same  salary. 

In  the  year  1756  the  organ  was  sold 
to  the  parish  of  St.  Paul's  at  New- 
buryport,  Mass.,  and  another,  said  to 
have  been  approved  by  Handel,  was 
imported  from  England  at  a  cost  of 
£500,  and  was  installed  in  its  place. 
The  Brattle  organ  remained  in  its 
new  home  till  1836,  when  it  was  pur- 
chased for  Saint  John's  Chapel  in 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  by  Dr.  Bur- 
roughs for  $400  and  set  up  in  the 
chapel. 

In  the  mean  time,  or  about  eighty 
years  after  Brattle  Street  Church  re- 
fused the  gift  of  its  benefactor,  a 
change  of  opinion  in  regard  to  church 
music  had  taken  place  among  many 
of  its  members,  and  an  organ  was 
purchased  in  England  by  subscrip- 
tion.   It    arrived    safely    in    Boston 


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outer  harbor,  but  so  great  was  the 
opposition  to  its  introduction  on  the 
part  of  some  members  of  the  parish 
that  they  sent  a  committee  to  the 
minister,  Dr.  Thacher,  desiring  him 
with  pledge  of  making  good  the  cost 
of  purchase,  of  freight  and  charges, 
witli  damages,!  if  he  would  make  ar- 
rangements with  the  captain  of  the 
importing  ship  to  have  the  cases  con- 
taining the  instrument  thrown  over- 
board. But  the  good  doctor,  being  a 
progressive  man,  declined  to  inter- 
fere and  the  organ  was  in  due  time 
set  up  and  was  used  in  the  church  till 
1872,  when  tHe  old  edifice  was  taken 
down  and  a  new  one  erected  in  the 
Back  Bay. 

The  famous  Brattle  organ  is  8  feet 
2  inches  high,  5  feet  wide  and  2  feet 
7  inches  deep,  but  contains  no  trace  of 
the  maker's  name.  On  the  key  frame, 
written  with  lead  pencil,  is  the  name 
"Mr.  Edwards,  Portland,  Maine." 
Mr.  Edwards  was  an  organ  builder 
and  may  have  made  the  new  case, 
which  is  of  light  colored  Honduras 
fnahogany.  The  sides  are  panelled 
and  the  front  is  graced  with  seventeen 
non-speaking  gilded  wooden  pipes. 
The  key-board  trimmings  are  of  rose- 
wood. The  wind  chest,  slides,  valves, 
top-boards,  rock-boards  and  rock- 
board  pins  remain  unchanged  and 
are  of  English  oak- — a  common  mate- 
rial with  old  English  organ  builders. 

The  organ  has  six  registers:  Ses- 
quialter  bass,  Dulciana,  15th  bass, 
15th  treble,  stopped  Diapason,  and 
Principal.  It  is  without  foot  pedal 
keys  and  has  but  one  bank  of  fifty- 
one  keys  on  the  key-board  manual 
from  CC  to  D,  but  the  wind  chest  is 
bored  for  forty-nine  pipes,  the  CC 
sharp    and   the    D    being   stationary. 


This  key-board  slides  in  when  not  m 
use.  The  size  of  wind  chest  is  that 
of  the  key-scale,  as  the  makers  did 
not  know  the  use  of  the  roller  board 
to  spread  the  tone. 

The  octave  or  Principal  is  of  wood 
instead  of  metal  and  runs  through  all 
the  forty-nine  pipes.  The  tone  is  half- 
way between  the  modern  octave  and " 
the  Flute  Traverso.  The  Dulciana  is 
of  metal  with  thirty-one  pipes  tenor 
G  to  E,  the  Fifteenth  of  metal  with 
forty-nine  pipes  divided  at  C.  The 
Dulciana  originally  was  a  two  bank 
mixture  of  ninety-eight  pipes,  but  this 
brilliant  tone  was  not  so  suitable  for 
church  music,  hence  the  change. 

The  stopped  Diapason  and  Fifteenth 
are  original.  One  of  the  most  marked 
peculiarities  of  this  instrument  is  that 
the  stop  Diapason  treble  begins  at  G 
second  octave,  and  the  Dulciana  be- 
gins at  the  same  note,  and  as  the  stop 
Diapason  bass  is  not  controlled  by 
any  draw  stop  it  is  on  all  the  time  and 
consequently  furnishes  the  bass  for 
both  stops. 

The  Diapason  bass  pipes  are  set  at 
the  back  of  the  organ  wherever  there 
is  room  without  regard  to  natural  or- 
der. This  singular  arrangement  may 
be  accounted  for  by  the  inability  of 
the  early  builders  to  put  in  a  suitable 
stop  to  control  these  pipes. 

One  of  the  lower  pipes  of  the 
Fifteenth  bears  the  name  "Joseph 
G.  Pike,  183 1 "  and  "E.  G.  Morss, 
183 1,"  scratched  with  a  sharp  instru- 
ment. The  latter  name  suggests  that 
of  Rev.  Dr.  Morss,  rector  of  St. 
Paul's  Church,  Newburyport,  whose 
son  was  an  amateur  organ  builder. 

The  length  of  the  lowest  bass  pipe 
is  4  feet,  being  stopped  gives  an  8  feet 
tone,  the  highest  is  C  sharp  fifteenth, 


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and  is  pitched  two  octaves  above  the 
Diapason. 

In  regard  to  the  register  stop 
heads,  that  of  the  Dulciana  is  unmis- 
takably a  reHc  of  the  old  days.  The 
engraving  is  quaint  and  inartistic. 
The  Sesquialter  bass  gives  some  indi- 
cation of  age,  but  not  so  determi- 
nate. The  remaining  register  heads 
are  semi-modern  and  the  work 
resembles  that  of  John  Bolton,  who 
about  three-quarters  of  a  century  ago 
did  such  work  for  all  Boston  organ 
builders. 

A  part  of  the  original  framework  of 
the  hinged  bellows  remains,  to  which 


has  been  attached  a  rising  of  flat  bel- 
lows which  is  filled  by  the  organist 
pumping  at  the  front  or  by  an  as- 
sistant working  the  pedal  at  the  side. 
To  the  tone  character  of  the  sev- 
eral registers  great  praise  cannot  be 
given,  because  of  the  lack  of  proper 
equality  and  balance  between  them, 
and  because  of  the  same  lack  between 
the  several  piped  ones  of  each  indi- 
vidual register.  Still,  the  tone  is 
mellow  and  sweet,  and  when  we  re- 
member that  it  was  the  first  organ 
that  ever  pealed  to  the  glory  of  God 
in  this  country,  we  gladly  overlook 
all  its  shortcomings. 


Autumn 

By  Ellen  Frances  Baldwin 

AWAY,  where  the  'breath  of  the  morning 
In  mist  is  enveiling  the  hills. 
The  clarion  horn  of  a  huntsman 
The  silence  encompassing  fills. 

The  sweep  of  an  oncoming  pageant 

Far  down  through  the  hush  draweth  near, 

All  splendid  in  purple  and  scarlet 

Comes  Autumn,  the  king  of  the  year. 

The  usurping  Summer,  before  him 
Has  fled  at  the  sound  of  his  horn, 

And  on  toward  her  far  southern  kingdom 
He  speeds  through  the  mist  of  the  morn. 

For  naught  does  he  stop  in  his  riding, 
And  naught  in  his  swiftness  he  heeds. 

Till  he  reaches  the  forest's  dim  chantry 
Where  Nature  is  telling  her  beads; 

There,  lowly,   a  blessing  he  seeketh 
Beside  the  sweet  shrine  of  the  fane ; 

While  the  woods  like  a  sunset  are  glowing 
With  the  gleam  of  his  lingering  train. 


Danvers,  Massachusetts 


By  Frank  E.  Moynahan 


"Landing  on  a  green  slope's  side, 
Grazing  round  the  region  wide, 
Over  wind-swept  forests  free, 
Down  the  inlet  to  the  sea, 
Quoth  the  governor,  'What  harm 
If  I  here  lay  out  my  farm. 
Plant  my  orchards,  sow  my  maize 
And  in  peace  live  out  my  days? 
In  my  little  sloop  sail  down, 
When  I  must,  to  Salem  town, 
Ruling  the  %ood  folk  as  well 
As  if  I  should  with  them  dwell." 


s 


who, 


O  writes  the  poet  of  the  land- 
ing of  Governor  John  Ende- 
cott,  who  was  the  first  gov- 
ernor of  the  colony,  and 
with  his  followers,  was  the 
first  white  man  known  to  have  set 
foot  on  the  soil  of  Danvers — good, 


old  Danvers,  historic  and  famed,  the 
home  of  the  hateful  withcraft  delu- 
sion no  more  than  the  home  of 
some  of  the  noblest  men,  the 
bravest  heroes,  the  greatest  gen- 
erals, the  a'blest  legislators,  the 
most  skilled  physicians,  the  most 
gifted  writers, — rich  in  colonial  and 
provincial  history,  full  of  sacred  soil 
which  covers  the  dust  of  men  and 
women  revered  in  all  parts  of  this 
broad  country,  one  of  the  most  in- 
teresting spots  in  the  famous  coun- 
ty of  old  Essex,  of  the  common- 
wealth, in  the  land  which,  in  June, 
1902,  observed  its  150th  anniver- 
sary with  elaborate  exercises  last- 
ing three  days. 


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